South African Design, Past & Present
Timed Online Auction, 7 - 26 June 2024
Ceramic Art and Glass
Lot Estimate
ZAR 15 000 - 20 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 14 070
About this Item
A Chinese Export famille-rose Armorial dish, Qing Dynasty, 1785-1791
commissioned for the Cape market, octagonal, with gilt rim, the cavetto enamelled with a dark blue double border decorated with gilt stars enclosing enamelled sprays of flowers and fruit, with the Van Schuler/Van Aerssen coat of arms supported by a griffon and a lion and surmounted by a ducal coronet of five strawberry leaves, the centre painted with a further spray of fruit, flowers and foliage
1
28,5cm wide
Provenance
This dish was part of 'the last armorial dinner-service made during the Company's regime, ordered by Cornelis van Aerssen Beyeren, Lord of Voshol [who] arrived at the Cape in April 1785' (Woodward, C.S., Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope 1652-1975: An account of the porcelain trade of the Dutch East India Company with particular reference to ceramics with the V.O.C. monogram, the Cape market, and South African collections, A.A. Balkema, Cape Town, 1974, pg. 125)
Literature
C.S Woodward (1974) Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope 1652-1795, Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, illustrated in black and white on page 126.
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